Month: January 2018

In my very first essay after The Book Closet relaunch, I did a Deep Dive into the Daredevil Root of Evil storyline, collected in the Daredevil Epic Collection: Root of Evil. In that essay I came to the conclusion that the majority of the Root of Evil storyline was thematic and that the visuals were…

This title brought about a strange collection of feelings for me. I would have liked to have written a “Look Deeper” post about it, but I may need to separate myself from it a little more before being able to do that. As of right now the dominant feeling this book has brought forth is……

This story not only has emotional weight and significance, it also pairs nicely with the short-story “The Killing Stroke” by Fabian Niceza in showing what happened to the members of Freedom Force that caused them to disband as the government’s super-team

Rogue & Gambit (2018) #1 by Kelly Thompson Rogue and Gambit wee my absolute two favorite heroes growing up. I there is an entire generation of people who learned to read in the early 90s for whom this was their first introduction to the idea of “tragic love,” the sort of love that’s doomed to…

Typhoid Mary as written by Ann Nocenti may be the most important character in all of modern comics: more than anything created by Stan Lee, Bob Kane, or Siegel & Shuster. The reason being that — as different and important as all those characters became — they were all cut from the same cloth (re:…

Maverick spun out of Wolverine-centric X-Men stories and was essentially a mercenary with ties to Wolverine’s past in general and Weapon X in specific. If that sounds familiar, it should: it could also describe Deadpool. In fact, the Maverick ongoing series started around the same time as the Deadpool ongoing series did.